New York City in Photographs, 1962-72
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Transcript of New York City in Photographs, 1962-72
Bernard Safran was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1924 to immigrant parents. His father
had fled Czarist Russia after escaping from a Siberian prison camp; his mother had
been sent to America at age thirteen to work as a milliner and pay for her refugee
family's passage from Poland. Safran grew up in the rough and vibrant community of
Bensonhurst, where Murder Inc. operated, and his best friend's father was the local
bookie. His childhood memories were visually rich - full of the colorful people, sights,
sounds and odors of everyday life in the big city. His street-smart upbringing with
gangsters, pushcarts, fighting boys and 5 cent matinees left him with an
unromanticized appreciation for the everyday life of the working classes.